Hip Hop is pretty much dead ... or to be more specific it was stillborn... White high school girls and P Diddy conspired to efficiently get the job done...
what started out as a creative outlet for inner city youth who didnt have access to discos and night clubs and store bought pop music came to be overtaken by savvy promoters who realized at some point that urban inner city kids dont have the disposable income required to move large amounts of product through retail outlets. The aforementioned promoters quickly switched from marketing to the inner city to marketing to white semi affluent high school girls...
Thus as hiphop was born into the mainstream- it was killed, and replaced by it's artificially attractive but entirely shallow little sister ...
today we have the remnants of the early pioneers in the form of "Hip Pop" - basically dance club beats rhymed over and oversaturated with synthesized effects - the subject matter has degenerated from the revolutionary, to the mildly relevant, to the repetitively shocking, to the current redundant idiocy ...
Though to be sure some form of hip hop still lives on in some inner city locales and continues to evolve and change city to city... for the most part what the modern day mainstream media refers to as hip hop is really just the P Diddys of the world reaching into the pocketbooks of white mommys and daddys who have more disposable income than parental inclinations... on the backs of artists who require the right mix of media consumability, a pretense of street cred, and at least a smidgen of talent to give a producer something to work in in between the requisite clicks, pops, and beeps sandwiched into the already overcrowded hip pop brain fart....
Anyone who disagrees that hip hop is actually dead... I simply have 2 words for you ... Laffy and Taffy... chew on that...
Discuss...
what started out as a creative outlet for inner city youth who didnt have access to discos and night clubs and store bought pop music came to be overtaken by savvy promoters who realized at some point that urban inner city kids dont have the disposable income required to move large amounts of product through retail outlets. The aforementioned promoters quickly switched from marketing to the inner city to marketing to white semi affluent high school girls...
Thus as hiphop was born into the mainstream- it was killed, and replaced by it's artificially attractive but entirely shallow little sister ...
today we have the remnants of the early pioneers in the form of "Hip Pop" - basically dance club beats rhymed over and oversaturated with synthesized effects - the subject matter has degenerated from the revolutionary, to the mildly relevant, to the repetitively shocking, to the current redundant idiocy ...
Though to be sure some form of hip hop still lives on in some inner city locales and continues to evolve and change city to city... for the most part what the modern day mainstream media refers to as hip hop is really just the P Diddys of the world reaching into the pocketbooks of white mommys and daddys who have more disposable income than parental inclinations... on the backs of artists who require the right mix of media consumability, a pretense of street cred, and at least a smidgen of talent to give a producer something to work in in between the requisite clicks, pops, and beeps sandwiched into the already overcrowded hip pop brain fart....
Anyone who disagrees that hip hop is actually dead... I simply have 2 words for you ... Laffy and Taffy... chew on that...
Discuss...
